Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] know for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not know then , were not to know for many years , were never fully to understand what it was that held them together — a sense of being on the margins of English life , perhaps , a sense of being outsiders , looking in from a cold street through a lighted window into a warm lit room that later might prove to be their own ? |
| 2 | Both of them were already known for silences . |
| 3 | Both Mac and Morrissey were well known for slagging off the entire rock world outside their own small circles . |
| 4 | Some pioneers ( Ron James was a famous example ) were well known for their peerless protection ability . |
| 5 | A number of other young men in the Town Boys group were well known for their ability to drink impossible-sounding quantities of beer . |
| 6 | Thus Aquitaine remained a far-off , unknown country and its inhabitants were well known for their fickleness and treacherousness . |
| 7 | The contents of the jiffy bag were n't important but they were genuine , and the solicitors were well known for handling City problems . |
| 8 | Masri , 49 , the country 's first Palestinian-born Prime Minister since 1972 , who had held the post of Foreign Minister intermittently for five years , most recently in the previous government [ see p. 37976 ] , was widely known for his liberal , pro-Western views . |
| 9 | Merlin was soon known for his fantastic mechanical automata , and it is not inconceivable that Tylney met him at one of the many masquerades then all the rage in London . |
| 10 | ISAAC ASIMOV , who has died in New York aged 72 , was best known for his works of science fiction , a genre in which he reigned supreme , but he could also claim to have written more books about more subjects than any other author . |
| 11 | He was best known for rebuilding the Milagres Chapel in Machico . |
| 12 | Cardew was best known for his portrayal of the comic character Cardew the Cad , a tall overgrown schoolboy who wore short trousers , cap and scarf and recalled school pranks while on stage . |
| 13 | Sir Geraint was best known for his portrayal of Falstaff . |
| 14 | Huckerby , a worried-looking , balding man , had a responsible position which basically involved overseeing editorial expenditure and running the paper day to day , but was best known for fussing round the office collecting old coffee cups and switching off the lights last thing at night . |
| 15 | Outside Italy he was best known for La Maniera italiana ( 1962 ) and I Bamboccianti ( 1983 ) . |
| 16 | In the pre-Gockley era , the HGO never attained the glamour of its sister companies in Dallas and San Antonio ; it was best known for presenting young stars on the rise ( Plácido Domingo was a regular in the 1960s ) and legendary performers at the end of their careers ( Inge Borkh and Richard Tucker , among others ) , in very traditional productions of the core repertory ) . |
| 17 | The 1961 Programme , hailed by Khrushchev as a ‘ Communist Manifesto of the modern era ’ , was best known for its assumption that the achievement of a fully communist society had become an ‘ immediate practical task for the Soviet people ’ . |
| 18 | Peach was best known for his geological fieldwork in Scotland with John Horne [ q.v. ] , |
| 19 | Warner was best known for his work on optics and mathematics . |
| 20 | However , Davison was best known for his work as a writer on the history of British earthquakes and seismology in general . |
| 21 | I had been trying to get a membership list for the Cicero Club , but the only other name I could come up with was George Macready , a scarfaced iceman who had a profitable share of the City 's gambling and was best known for his sword-extruding walking stick . |
| 22 | In the fourteenth century it was best known for its links with the woollen trade . |
| 23 | Before today farmer Richard Cheshire was best known for his prize-winning sheep . |
| 24 | John Piper was best known for his very English pictures of the countryside , including his own house near Henley-on-Thames , where he lived for more than fifty years . |
| 25 | John Piper was best known for his very English pictures of the countryside , including his own house near Henley-on-Thames , where he lived for more than fifty years . |
| 26 | Thomas Fairchild ( 1667–1729 ) was already known for his City Gardener , with its advice on flowers , evergreens and shrubs suitable for London gardens and another member , Robert Furber , who experimented with many new trees and plants in his Kensington nursery numbered a horse chestnut with a scarlet flower amongst his novelties . |
| 27 | Sheffield was already known for its knives by the fourteenth century — Chaucer refers to the miller in The Canterbury Tales as carrying a ‘ Sheffield thwitel ’ ( a large knife ) . |
| 28 | This famous agriculturalist , influenced by the Duke of Bedford and dismissive of the Norfolk and Suffolk breeds that later combined to become the Red Poll , brought the small , thrifty Devons to his estates , where he was already known for experimenting with sheep such as the Southdown , the Norfolk Horn and Bakewell 's new Leicester . |
| 29 | Mr Ueberroth may have spoken a bit too bluntly for his own good — and was not known for his sensitivity in dealing with the urban poor . |
| 30 | Then he remembered Wittisham was one of Emma Pryde 's portégés and that Emma was not known for encouraging entirely vacuous young men . |